"Kharak" in Arabic

[C1ick3r]

Seriously!!!!
Do you know that "Kharak" in Arabic means "Your Sh*t"?
Welcome to Desserts of your Sh*t

[Tale]

Why else do you think they're trying to leave it? ;P

[Gwynbleidd]

Wait for Bob to come here and tell us how this game gonna suck because of this. )

[PunCrathod]

Are you sure? I mean a word like that would most definedly show up in google translate or atleast a dictionary if it was true.

[Wintermist]

I call Kharak on this one.

[Skeloton]

Kadesh is/was a real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadesh

[C1ick3r]

it's the same pronunciation

Originally posted by PunCrathod:

Are you sure? I mean a word like that would most definedly show up in google translate or atleast a dictionary if it was true.

[PunCrathod]

Originally posted by C1ick3r:

it's the same pronunciation

Are you sure you are pronouncing it correclty. Did you use the same pronounciating as in one of the videos? And even if you did how is it relevant? There are plenty of titles out there with names that can be pronounced in ways that make far worse translations.

[Sandy]

Originally posted by C1ick3r:

it's the same pronunciation

Could it be that you're mistaken with the romanization of the word? I wouldn't know about the origins of it, but a simple google search returns several places and people named "Kharak", including Karachi, in areas that are known today as Middle-east and India.

[TVMAN]

You realize Kharak is a town in Pakistan, right?

[Wintermist]

Pronounced it could just as well have been spelled Qurac too, most games will have a place sounding like something else in another language.

[kane3212]

Originally posted by Wintermist:

I call Kharak on this one.

lol

[SKaREO]

Khara is like saying "Shit!" in English when you make a mistake.

Originally posted by TVMAN:

You realize Kharak is a town in Pakistan, right?

And 97% of people from that country are Muslims. Osama Bin Laden was found living there. Really nice place to visit this time of the year, I'm sure...

[Archduke Franz Ferdinand]

hem, i'm just a learner of arabic language, and i barely know the alphabed, but i know how words gets constructed in arabic, they build up from a common root, so using the tools i have (google translate) i've tried to write it down the results are:
"خر" (KhR) translates to "esod"
"خرء" (KhRHa) translated to "dung"
"خرءك" (KhRHaK) translates to nothing

now i'm also confused about the root thing, because how dung as a word can emerge from esod makes no sense to me...

well ... languages ... wtf.

[Sammi79]

It's also just a name.

Sega means something rather amusing in Italian.

[edit] Sega can mean something rather amusing in Italian in the correct context: fammi una sega

(thankyou @Orchidd)


As a child I had 2 pet cats, one called pu$$y cat, the other called caty puss. These were shortened to pu$$y and taty. A beaver is a large nocturnal semiaquatic rodent. etc.

I don't remember anyone making a fuss about Kharak back in 2000 when Homeworld was released.

[C1ick3r]

yes the spelling would be qarac if you are a Pakistani not an Arab :D

Originally posted by Wintermist:

Pronounced it could just as well have been spelled Qurac too, most games will have a place sounding like something else in another language.